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I used Google Translate to translate the parts under the heading Toelichting:

Sturen aan:

In sending a letter to someone 'to someone' is a collaborative object. With the collaborative object, the person, the group of persons or the authority is expressed to whom something is sent; Thus, in the case of a letter, it concerns the addressee (s).

Sturen naar:

Sending a letter to someone is an advisory clause indicating "in what direction" (where) the letter is sent: to which person, person or authority.

Thanks! I also have another different question... So I put my phone into Dutch just to find new words and get more immersed I guess and I came across this on one app: 'Ingedrukt houden voor opnieuw afspelen' which Google Translate says it means: "Press and hold for replay" (which is close to what the regular English says) but I'm just confused on the grammar. Why is indrukken in the past participle, why is there no en, and I'm confused about how 'replay' is translated.

-My piece on the "replay" part; usually in English, if you want to tell to do something again, you add the prefix "re(-)" (replay, redo, reopen, remake (also possible with a dash in between)). In Dutch you usually don't do that (although there are times you can use the prefix "her" (and rarely even "re", but those may come from loanwords)). Instead, you literally tell them to do it again. As in "opnieuw afspelen", "opnieuw doen", "heropenen", "opnieuw maken" (respectively from my English examples). Hope this clarified it.